DevOps Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience within a DevOps Engineering role
• Expertise with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar
• Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Strong understanding of Linux and distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices within enterprise environments
• Previous experience within Financial Services or a highly regulated environment
• Exposure to SRE principles and observability tooling
• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical applications

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
• Support cloud-based and on-premise environments
• Drive DevOps best practices across development teams
• Monitor and maintain platform performance, availability, and security
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues
• Collaborate with software engineers, architects, and stakeholders to improve delivery processes
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• GCP
• GitLab
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• OpenShift
• PowerShell
• Python
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are Barclays, a high-performing technology team supporting the delivery of critical applications and infrastructure across the bank. This is a 6-month contract role working inside IR35 via umbrella, with a hybrid working pattern of 2 days per week in the office. We prefer Glasgow as the location, though Manchester or Northampton are also considered. This opportunity offers the chance to work in a large-scale enterprise environment, helping to drive automation, improve CI/CD processes, and support cloud-native engineering practices while collaborating closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to build robust, scalable, and secure platforms.

last updated 31 week of 2026